Frank & Co (eBook)

With this book, the Zappa fan will get a glimpse into Frank that I dont believe any other book written by him or about him expresses. And us Zappa fans love that. Thank you, Co. Steve VaiI think the best way to start when somebody says something cant be done, just look at them and say: why not? Frank Zappa, Los Angeles, 1990Co de Kloet and Frank Zappa were friends for many years, and during that time Co recorded nearly every conversation the two men had. They also corresponded frequentlyabout life, music, politics, and much more besidesand this book offers a unique chronicle of their friendship, from their first meeting in 1977 to Zappas death in 1993.Co is renowned as an expert on Zappas music, but this book is about far more than that, and is unlike any other collection of interviews. As his son Dweezil writes in his foreword, Frank was a reluctant and sometimes combative interviewee, yet his conversations with Co were open and wideranging.Through more than two decades of these discussions, Frank & Co reveals a thoughtful, sensitive, and expansive Zappa, offering readers new insights into the life and career of one of the great masters of twentiethcentury American music. It also includes Cos favourite memories of Frank, as well as interviews with Zappa alumni Flo & Eddie, Jimmy Carl Black, Pamela Zarubica, and Don van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart.